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Precarity and Class Consciousness in Contemporary Swedish Working-Class Literature
Humanities, 2023 This article analyses aesthetical–political strategies for the promotion of class consciousness among workers in a few examples of contemporary Swedish working-class literature from different genres that describe and criticize precarious working ...
Magnus Nilsson
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Working-Class Women’s Literature: An Introduction to Study
Radical Teacher, 2014 Writing ‒ and indeed thinking ‒ about working-class literature presents a number of unique problems. To begin with, what do we mean by “working-class literature”? Literature about working-class people, literature by them, or literature addressed to them?
Paul Lauter
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Ett nationellt-proletärt novellepos [PDF]
Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2013 A National-Proletarian Epic of Short Stories. Ivar Lo-Johansson’s Statarna This essay explores Ivar Lo-Johansson’s epic collection of short stories Statarna (1936–37).
Per-Olof Mattsson
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Introduction: Evolving Perspectives on Working-Class Literature
Working-Class Literature(s) Volume II. Historical and International Perspectives, 2020 The main impetus to publish the first volume of Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives was simple: we were unhappy with the scholarly framing surrounding working-class literature.
Lennon, John, Nilsson, Magnus
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Economic inequality, Marxist theory, and Swedish-language working-class literature [PDF]
Studia Neophilologica, 2020 The conference ‘Is Economic Inequality also a Literary Problem?’ held at Uppsala University, Sweden, in 2017 raised the following questions: What does literature have to do with inequality?
M. Nilsson
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The Hybridity of South African Working-Class Literature
Working-Class Literature(s) Volume II. Historical and International Perspectives, 2020 In this chapter I present an overview of the most prominent trends in South African working-class literature from the beginning of the 20th century until 1994. Since its emergence, South African working class was a heterogeneous formation which encompassed diverse ethnicities, both of European and non-European origin.
Malgorzata N. Drwal
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The Making of Swedish Working-Class Literature
, 2017 This chapter gives an overview of the tradition of Swedish working-class literature, which incorporates an analysis of how this literature has been viewed in different ways in different contexts and at different times. This opens up for a reconstruction of Swedish working-class literature as an ever-changing phenomenon existing within a vast field of ...
M. Nilsson
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The Making of the Finnish Working Class in Early Twentieth-Century Working-Class Literature
Journal of Finnish Studies, 2015 Abstract Working-class literature was one of the cultural areas that defined social class in early twentieth-century Finland. As a starting point for this article, it stems from E. P. Thompson's key points: first, the working class was active in its own making, and, second, that class needs to be understood as a relationship between ...
Kati Launis
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Rethinking Working-Class Literature: Feminism, Globalization, and Socialist Ethics [PDF]
differences, 2008 According to a corpus of representative texts and standard minimal Marxist definitions, the “proletariat” of proletarian literature is, by definition, revolutionary, and by implication, male; this is the specific subset of the working class entrusted with the historic mission of abolishing the class system.
Sonali Perera
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Hostile Ignorance, Class, and Same-Race Friendships: Perspectives of Working-Class College Students
Socius, 2021 In the growing literature on upwardly mobile college students, there is evidence of students from working-class backgrounds experiencing exclusion on campus.
Sherelle Ferguson, Annette Lareau
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